JohnHowardReid Review of She's Back on Broadway

She's Back on Broadway (1953)

I and at least two million other people really enjoyed it!

[9/10 · 15 August 2016]

I'm amazed at all the negative reviews this movie has received, both on IMDb and on many other places including newspaper reviews back in 1953. When I was running movies at uni, this was one of the most popular movies on campus. It was frequently requested and always sold out. But needless to say, there are also many totally inadequate reviews in many books in which it is painfully obvious that the author has not actually seen the movie but has relied on some of the negative newspaper reviews. As for me, I find it hard just to do justice just to its dazzling music score which must be one of the most extensive on record. You really have to see the movie again and again to compile just a partial listing of all the song delights you enjoyed. True, so far as the actual plot is concerned, the movie is a little dialog-bound, but it is nonetheless very convincingly acted. It's also colorfully photographed and staged and most zestfully directed. The audition scenes alone are so brilliantly inventive and amusing, they even bring about audience applause -- and believe me, that is a very rare event in the cinema!